Calling her Ninja Turtles! Megan Fox fiddles with her phone during late night break on the set of TMNT

Cell phones were the last thing they could have envisioned when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first came to life in the 1980s.

But Megan Fox is looking to inject a little modern flair into the reptilian remake as she was caught texting on her smartphone during a late night shoot in Brooklyn, New York on Friday.

On call: Megan Fox was caught dialing on a cell phone as she took a breather while filming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Brooklyn, New York on Friday

The actress has rarely strayed from her yellow leather jacket while acting in character, an homage to the sunshine-coloured jumpsuit worn by the original cartoon version of April O'Neil.

The mother-of-one has also taken her character to heart, dying her tresses red but keeping them long unlike April's distinct 1980's fringed bob cut.

But as her character's main mode of transportation around the Big Apple has been a thin track bicycle Megan has been left to box up those long flame locks under a boyish black helmet.

Modern technology: Though there were no cell phones during previous revamps of the series this film sets out to be a modern update

And sticking with the signature lok she finished off her costume with a pair of skintight dark denim trousers and tall black boots.

Actresses Renae Jacobs, Mae Whitman, and Paige Turco, and Judith Hoag have all portrayed O'Neil in past incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- all of them adding on their own distinct style.

And while the actors playing the new Turtles will be motion-captured a la Avatar - Megan will most certainly be in the flesh.

Dressed down: In stark contrast to the Turtles' extensive costumes, Megan only has to wear casual skinny jeans and a leather jacket

Riding along: Her main mode of transportation has been a bicycle as they film around the Big Apple

According to the website screenrant.com, the new TMNT instalment aims to bring the Turtles to life using a mixture of real people - such as Megan's April - and digital character, a similar method to that used by Avatar and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

It adds that, unusually for motion capture filming, the movie takes place outdoors in addition to a closed set, which is a technique that was revolutionised on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

The move to modernize the film is somewhat of a tradition with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, which has seen a series of revamps since its inception as a children's animated TV series in 1987.

The show was later reborn in the late 1990s as a live-action series and brought back twice in the 2000's and last year in it's animated form.

Superheroes with a difference L - R: Noel Fisher as Michelangelo, Jeremy
Howard as Donatello and Pete Ploszek as Leonardo on the New York set of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A little bit different: The Turtles wore Jim Henson designed suits for their 1991 film The Secret of the Ooze